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The BRICS Common Currency Project to Counter the U.S. Dollar. India is Against It In a report filed by The Business Standard on August 8, 2026, India, current BRICS chair, opposes a proposal for a common currency to counter the US dollar. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/brics-common-currency/5936749

Poisoned Legacy More ordnance was rained down on Iraq during the six weeks of the Gulf War than was dropped in the whole of World War Two. Unknown to the public or the Allied troops at the time, much of it was coated with depleted uranium (DU). Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/poisoned-legacy/5936743

Kiev Launches Sanctions Drive Against Russian Arms Industry That Will End in Failure The announcement of a “special sanctions operation” aimed at restricting the Russian military industry demonstrates Ukraine’s continued information warfare, built on grandiose declarations that have no real effect, just as the 40-day “special operation” failed to deliver the expected results, even though it was claimed that by the end it would force the Kremlin to end military operations. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/kiev-launches-sanctions-drive-against-russian-arms-industry-end-failure/5936684

India’s Independence Day is Time to Emphasize Unity and Caution in Difficult Times As India observes Independence Day on 15 August, three aspects of the present day situation are particularly important for its people and leadership in the government as well as the opposition. Firstly there should be clear understanding on all sides that these are exceptionally difficult times in terms of the wider world situation which one hopes will improve soon but on the basis of the available facts appears more likely to deteriorate further. Secondly, and related to the first, there is need for a lot of caution and for extra care in making the right choices. This is true not only for the government but also for the opposition parties and social movements, if the interests of the country and its people are to be protected. Read here: https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/india-independence-day-unity-caution-difficult-times/5633602

Draining India’s Small Farms to Sustain the City While critiques of Indian agriculture have long focused on the crisis of commercial cash crops and the corporatisation of wheat and paddy procurement, this focus creates a significant oversight. By treating the state-backed mandi system as the universal standard, such analyses overlook the reality of the vast majority of smallholders—those growing pulses, millets and rain-fed crops who were never integrated into formal MSP procurement to begin with.   Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/draining-india-small-farms-sustain-city/5936680

Venezuela: Don’t Blame the Victim Washington and its allies failed to destroy Chavismo, the movement founded by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by his successor Nicolás Maduro. Venezuela did not collapse or degenerate into chaos after the decapitation. Domestic peace prevailed. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/venezuela-dont-blame-victim/5936611

India-Russia Defense Partnership: Modernization of Su-30MKI Fighter Jet with Moscow’s Support Military sources report that Delhi and Moscow are strengthening their longtime defense partnership, specifically in the joint production and modernization of the legendary Su-30MKI (NATO reporting name “Flanker-H”). Namely, India is resuming manufacturing at the HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) Nashik facility, bringing a license production agreement dating back to December 2000 into a new phase. HAL will produce at least 12 new Su-30MKIs, with deliveries expected to be completed by 2029. A total of 222 fighter jets have been produced under a license agreement with Russia, with 50 more built by the Irkut Corporation (now rebranded as the Yakovlev Corporation) and delivered to the Indian Air Force (IAF) fully assembled. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/india-russia-defense-partnership-modernization-of-su-30mki-fighter-jet-with-moscows-support/5936589

The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets The National Guard was just the beginning. One year after President Trump deployed military troops to the nation’s capital, we find ourselves navigating a posse comitatus presidency in which the visual trappings of martial law are the norm, not the exception. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/posse-comitatus-presidency-trump-standing-army-american-streets/5936613

Video: President Trump and the Pentagon are Targeting Civilians Worldwide America’s unspoken military practice from World War II to the present consists in routinely targeting civilians, which constitutes a crime against humanity. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-president-trump-and-the-pentagon-are-targeting-civilians-worldwide/5929304

Japan’s Prime Minister Taikaichi’s “Undiplomatic Melons”: Australia’s Prime Minister Albanese’s Oafish Bungle “Politicians,” the vituperative satirist Auberon Waugh observed, “can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.” An exception to this appropriate rule might be the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who is desperately wishing to be ignored, at least regarding an interview he need never have done. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/anthony-albanese-oafish-bungle/5936541

Why Pills Don’t Fit Modern Life: The Burden of Too Many Capsules The handful-of-pills routine belongs to another era. Picture the morning ritual the supplement world quietly expects of you: a little assembly line of bottles on the counter, the careful counting, the palm filling up with capsules of different sizes and colors, and then the part nobody enjoys — getting the whole mouthful down with a gulp of water, hoping the big one doesn’t catch on the way. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/pills-dont-fit-modern-life-burden-too-many-capsules/5936516

Vaccine Cartel Desperately Clings to New MMR Vaccine–Autism “No Link” Study Riddled With Major Flaws A new Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal study is being promoted by the pharma-captured mass media apparatus as a massive 2.56-million-child analysis disproving an MMR–autism association, but major methodological problems undermine the entire paper. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/vaccine-cartel-new-mmr-vaccine-autism-no-link-study-riddled-major-flaws/5936506

Continuity of Criminality. Removing Forensic Evidence of Ongoing Genocide against Palestinians Recently, as revealed by  Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, Israel has decided to remove and destroy forensic evidence of its on-going genocide against Palestinians. Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, “estimates that at least 10 million tonnes of rubble have been removed, crushed, or moved from their original sites within the areas under Israel’s unlawful military control, which encompass about 66 per cent of the Gaza Strip.” Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/continuity-criminality/5936482

Ukraine Calls — Europe Pays: How Call Centres Turned Fraud into an Export Industry Imagine an ordinary European pensioner. He has worked all his life, saved money, and become accustomed to trusting his bank and the police. One day, someone calls him, knows his name, speaks his language without a noticeable accent, and confidently explains that there is a problem with his bank account. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/ukraine-call-centres-turned-fraud-export-industry/5936443

Maritime Trade Warfare in the Black Sea: 83 Years Later Although approximately 83 years separate the outbreak of the Second World War from that of the Russia–Ukraine War, the Black Sea has retained its strategic character as a maritime crossroads between Europe and Eurasia, where flows of energy, grain, raw materials and military logistics converge under the legal regime established by the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/maritime-trade-warfare-black-sea-83-years-later/5936440

Western Media Wants to ‘Normalize’ Killing Russians? Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung Asks Zelenski: “Can you Tell us What We Can do to Help you to Kill more Russians?” Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/western-media-wants-to-normalize-killing-russians-frankfurter-algemeine-zeitung-asks-zelenski-can-you-tell-us-what-we-can-do-to-help-you-to-kill-more-russians/5936380

The US Proxy War in Ukraine Has Always Been About Bleeding Russia, Not Starting WWIII The strategic objective of the United States and its European vassals in the Ukrainian theater has never been the swift resolution of the conflict or the establishment of a stable peace, but rather to bring about the systematic weakening of the Russian state to forestall its political and economic resurgence as a pole in an emerging multipolar world. This overarching aim provides the only logical framework for understanding the West’s calibrated approach to military involvement, particularly the steadfast refusal to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukrainian territory, a decision that at first glance might appear to be a reluctance to fully commit to Kyiv’s defense. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-proxy-war-ukraine-bleeding-russia-not-starting-wwiii/5936411

Video: The U.S. Faces a Dangerous New Phase — Col Douglas Macgregor In this video, Colonel Douglas Macgregor examines the growing geopolitical and security challenges facing the United States and the wider Middle East. Link to the video: https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-us-faces-dangerous-new-phase-col-douglas-macgregor/5936416

Solemn Anniversaries: The UN Refugee Convention Turns 75 That grand old thing is getting on a bit. Still significant and still functioning wearily, the United Nations Refugee Convention of 1951 has suffered abuse, subversion and neglect from state parties. At times, it is only honoured in the breach.  At other times, it is not honoured at all. After three-quarters of a century, it is easy to forget the hot ideal that streaks through the document: that it contains, as Christopher Bentram aptly remarks, “a kind of substitute citizenship” for those who have left their country of origin and find their bonds “broken by the threat of prosecution.”  It was the first of its kind to expand the focus of protection beyond narrowly designated groups. (Consider, in this regard the 1933 Convention relating to the International Status of Refugees, applicable to Russian, Armenian and “assimilated” refugees.) Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/un-refugee-convention-turns-75/5936427

Concentration of Wealth, the Shrinking of Democracy, and Deepening Economic Inequality Oxfam has called for concrete, time-bound national plans to reduce inequality. Its demands also include effective taxation of the ultra-rich, building a firm wall of separation between politics and wealth, safeguarding media freedom, and strengthening protections for the rights of ordinary citizens. Experts in the field observe that economic poverty breeds hunger, while political poverty breeds anger — and warn that unless governments address people’s basic needs, from healthcare and climate action to fair taxation, the world will grow only more unstable than before. Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/concentration-wealth-shrinking-democracy-deepening-economic-inequality/5936325